Israel to investigate strapped wounded Palestinian to jeep
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Israeli military says it is to investigate an incident in which an injured Palestinian was strapped to an Israeli military vehicle in the West bank. But Israeli human rights group B'Tselem is sceptical.
Also on the programme: French feminists protesting against what they see as the threat to women's rights of the far right National Rally party; and chaos over the exams for higher education that has sparked further protests across India.
(Photo: Footage shows wounded Palestinian strapped to Israeli army jeep. Credit: BBC)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from our studios |
| 0:08.9 | in Central London. I'm Julian Marshall. Ever since Israel began its assault on Gaza last October, there's also been an upsurge in violence |
| 0:18.7 | in the other Palestinian territory, the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:22.0 | It's certainly not been on the scale of... Palestinian Territory, the occupied West Bank. |
| 0:22.9 | It's certainly not been on the scale of Gaza where more than 37,000 people have been killed |
| 0:29.2 | according to Hamas, deemed a terror group by many Western governments, but there have been a large |
| 0:35.2 | number of fatalities and destruction of property. |
| 0:38.5 | The United Nations says that at least 480 Palestinians, members of armed groups, attackers, and civilians have been |
| 0:45.3 | killed in conflict-related incidents. |
| 0:48.1 | In the latest Israeli troops raided the West Bank city of Jenin in what Israel says was a counter-terrorism |
| 0:56.3 | incident but it's what happened next that attracted widespread condemnation. |
| 1:02.0 | An injured Palestinian was filmed strapped to the bonnet of an Israeli military vehicle in the course of |
| 1:07.9 | the raid. |
| 1:08.9 | A UN rapporteur has accused Israel of using the man as a human shield. The Israel Defense Forces |
| 1:15.2 | have admitted a breach of protocol and say the incident will be investigated. |
| 1:20.1 | Well we've requested an interview with somebody from the IDF, but they've told us that no one is |
| 1:26.7 | available to speak to us today, but the BBC has managed to contact Amir Avivi, retired Brigadier General of the Israeli Defence Forces. |
| 1:37.0 | What was his reaction to those images? |
| 1:39.0 | It's definitely, as the idea of said against the protocol and the military police is investigating that. |
| 1:45.6 | The idea really when treats very, very seriously incidents like that and I'm sure they'll do what is to be done to punish the relevant people. |
| 1:56.0 | Almost all the time the idea of adheres to protocols, this is why we have them. |
| 2:01.0 | Israeli soldiers know what the protocols are, but in all armies, especially when you |
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